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Ian Clarke  
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 More options Feb 25 2005, 7:29 pm
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From: "Ian Clarke" <i_d_cla...@yahoo.com>
Date: 25 Feb 2005 16:29:05 -0800
Local: Fri, Feb 25 2005 7:29 pm
Subject: Re: Time Zone
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Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Ian Clarke <i_d_cla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Rich Teer wrote:
> >> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Ian Clarke wrote:

> >> > Do you mean what I think you do? Looking at the two books
> >> > I now start to see what I think you mean. I looked at Teer
> >> > chapter 16 (Process Relationships) and chapter 9 of Stevens
> >> > Advanced Programming in The Unix Environment:

> >> I cover a superset of what Stevens does, and I imitated his
writing
> >> style (because I greatly admire it; that's one of the reasons why
> >> I thank Rich Stevens in the acknowledgements section).  It
shouldn't
> >> be too surprising, then, that there are similarities.

> Steven's book is, however, not mentioned in the bibliography
> (only the 3 editions of the unrelated book on network programming).

I see that Doors is covered in Teer and one of the Stevens
network programming books (vol 2).  Looking at that chapter,
there does seem again to be a sense of familiarity.

<XXX>

> >> If I was plagerising APUE, as some people seem to be implying,
> >> don't you think it would have taken a lot less than FOUR YEARS?
> >> I also notice that those same people aren't so quick to point
> >> out the myriad of differences between the two books.

> > Perhaps because it is the number of marked similarities
> > that is so striking.

> >> It seems that some people just aren't happy unless they're
shittin'
> >> on someone's parade.

> > No. Some people are curious about how parts of the two books
> > could be so similar.

> Well, I was curious, and asked.  But I did not receive a proper

answer.

Where did you ask?


 
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